Keyboard commandos

[Daklu]

I'm curious what hotkey combos the rest of you use most frequently and what quick custom quick drop key combos you use.

At home I have a Logitech G15 keyboard with 54 available macro keys. I keep thinking I should map LV functions to them but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Here are the hotkeys I use most frequently:

• F1 - Remapped to toggle context help
• F2 - Rename
• Ctl-Shft-N - Remapped to open a new project (great for preventing cross-linking)
• Ctl-Shft-A - Remapped to Save As

I try to set up my quick drop key combos so I can hit them all easily with only my left hand. Here are a few of them:

• stw - While loop (structure, while)
• stf - For loop
• stfs - Flat sequence structure
• stc - Case structure
• ste - In-place element structure
• stev - Event structure
• std - Diagram disable structure
• stcd - Conditional disable structure
• sterr - Error case structure
• carr - Array constant (constant, array)
• cb - Boolean constant

95% of my quick drop use is placing a structure of one sort or another. For some reason I haven't gotten into the habit of using it for other stuff.

[Darren]

These are the ones I use...I use shortcuts for functions and VIs as much as I use them for structures:

Quick Drop Palette Object Shortcuts for Right-Handed Developers

-D

[ShaunR]

std - Diagram disable structure

Very disabling

[SuperS_5]

I use these shortcuts. When I have enough desktop space, I use it over my wallpaper.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

There is also an awesome keyboard shortcuts page on our wiki here.

http://labviewwiki.o...yboard_shortcut

Please add any new ones discovered there. Thanks.

[Black Pearl]

I'm still working on my own plug-in key-assignments for Ctrl+N.

http://lavag.org/topic/12887-discuss-quick-create-a-new-vi-from-template/

For later LV versions, you'll need to fix it on your own; Fix is in the discussions page.

Felix

[Daklu]

There is also an awesome keyboard shortcuts page on our wiki here.

Great link. I tend to forget about the wiki page.

The original question is more about what everyone's favorite hotkeys are than what hotkeys are available. I thought it might give some insight into other developers' workflow. (i.e. Mapping context help to F1 and New Project to Ctl-Shft-N is a pretty good clue I use them a lot while coding.)